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Covered recipient · General Payments record

KATHERINE E STERN

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Surgery

NPI
1376074740
CMS profile
11698184
Location
LAGUNA HILLS, CA

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General Payments · PY2024–2025

  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$5,620.62

25 records · 0 disputed

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By nature of payment

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Education $3,250.00 2
Travel and Lodging $1,724.58 10
Food and Beverage $646.04 13

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $5,106.18 16
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION $198.57 4
Guard Medical Inc. $140.94 1
DAVOL INC. $82.67 2
VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED $60.00 1
COLOPLAST CORP $32.26 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2024 $193.79 2
PY2025 $5,620.62 25

Payment records · PY2025 (25)

Ordering applied by this site (date, newest first, then paying entity) · record values are shown as CMS published them

Program year 2025 2024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
COLOPLAST CORP $32.26 12/16/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1226977843 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $33.99 12/16/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550579 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $31.02 12/16/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550581 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $58.62 12/09/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550599 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $19.00 12/05/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550575 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $75.58 12/05/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550585 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $28.00 12/05/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550587 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $1,750.00 12/04/2025 Education No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550589 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $16.00 12/04/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550591 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $656.78 11/27/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550603 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $19.00 11/25/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550583 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $19.00 11/24/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550601 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $332.22 11/20/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550573 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $19.00 11/19/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550593 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $518.99 11/19/2025 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550595 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $1,500.00 11/17/2025 Education No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550597 CMS
Guard Medical Inc. $140.94 05/11/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1246357647 CMS
VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED $60.00 05/10/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1213876444 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $21.15 05/08/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1181576661 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $76.27 04/23/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1181576663 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $28.98 04/22/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1236550577 CMS
Davol Inc. $21.38 04/10/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1232219358 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $23.10 04/01/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1181576659 CMS
Davol Inc. $61.29 04/01/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1232219356 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $78.05 03/24/2025 Food and Beverage No dispute reported 06/30/2026 1181576657 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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Cite this record.

Plain
KATHERINE E STERN, NPI 1376074740. IndustryPayments, data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1376074740.
APA 7
IndustryPayments. (2026). KATHERINE E STERN, NPI 1376074740 (Data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z) [Data set]. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1376074740
Bluebook
KATHERINE E STERN, NPI 1376074740, IndustryPayments (data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z), https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1376074740.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Open Payments.